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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Harvard Innovation Lab.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.

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The “Pre” Startup is adding air to the bubble

Scalable Startup

Here are the justifications and logic process for so many claiming they have a startup before they really do, and in many cases actually getting some funding: people feel like they might as well start their own business since nobody is hiring. the barriers are now very low for actually forming a business, as is the cost. millionaires.

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How to Start a Home Health Care Business

Up and Running

percent in 2000 to 19.6 If you are the type of person who finds travel stressful, this may be something to consider before launching a home health care business. Technological upkeep and maintenance. The most traditional routes are bank loans, small business loans, or angel investors. population.

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The end or the beginning? Thoughts on the current startup environment

This is going to be BIG.

Just because an angel investor that made tens of millions of dollars gives $50k to a startup, and got 9 of her friends to do the same thing, doesn't mean that company deserves to get a $5 million check. Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Now I just need a business model.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.